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Goldman Sachs image stained again with damning 1MDB investment settlements

Goldman's costs from the scandal hurtled beyond $5 billion Thursday while a subsidiary pleaded guilty to a US criminal charge for the first time in the firm's history

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The case focuses on the firm’s fundraising work in 2012 and 2013 for the state-owned fund formally known as 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

Sridhar Natarajan | Bloomberg
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., pilloried after the 2008 financial crisis, just saw a decade of image repair tarnished as prosecutors and regulators around the world unleashed accusations and punishments against the bank after a yearslong probe into the plundering of Malaysia’s 1MDB investment fund.

Goldman’s costs from the scandal hurtled beyond $5 billion Thursday while a subsidiary pleaded guilty to a U.S. criminal charge for the first time in the firm’s history. The parent company entered a deal to spare itself a conviction that could cripple business, by promising to behave.

In a rare rebuke, Goldman will also force Chief